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EXCERPT FROM LBB ONLINE

The Airport used for Cassie’ and her colleague’s arrival is in fact Rome Fiumicino, both on the interior and exterior. The scene for the hotel locations, where she stays after landing in Italy, is Le Meridien Visconti Hotel – for which PSN Italy praises the personnel who also accommodated the whole crew.

The scene featuring Enrico’s bar, ‘Brocca e Tazza’ was actually shot in the Piazza dei Coronari, and of course Cassie treads the stones in the glorious Piazza Navona and several tiny streets nearby. When the story takes Cassie to Nonna’s house, PSN Italy found a villa just outside of Rome – a beautiful antique building with a private courtyard.

Luca de Angelis commented: “Our advice is: never underestimate the work that a production service can do. Our expertise allows you not to find bumps on the road while dealing with local authorities, local sites, etc. Going to a different country is never easy, even if its culture is similar to your own, having an expert in the field changes your approach and gives you the possibility not to worry of anything else rather than doing the best you can in delivering the awesome shots you came here for.”

“In Italy, the biggest challenge is often managing very popular tourist destinations, but that is our bread and butter.” he continued “It is never easy to shoot in tourist destinations, but our close relationships with towns, cities and their authorities means we can more easily secure access, we even cleared out the entire beautiful town of Positano in high season once!”

“The real deal was shooting at Rome Fiumicino Airport.” Luca remarked. “The Airport reserved us a whole gate, plus a couple of extra rooms to have our lunch break and keep our belongings. Our location manager and production department did a tremendous job in obtaining all authorizations: it is not that easy when you have to scan all gear before entering, get everyone a crew pass, and at the same time deal with police and drug-sniffing dogs! The other challenge was ‘Nonna’s house’, whilst beautiful, nothing else was there. We had to search and find the owner of a closed old restaurant to rent the location and have our own heated room with a catering service.”

“If you have to worry about learning a new country’s rules, laws or searching for high-quality services you don’t usually work with, it will undoubtedly affect the productivity of a shoot.” he concluded. “A good and trustworthy production service partner can help navigate those challenges and this is how we work in the PSN network.”